The Gateway City Jazz Combo performs at October Fest.

JASPER — Even postponed a day, the Arc of North Florida’s October Fest was a success.

Originally slated for Saturday, the festival was rescheduled for Sunday due to the threat of inclement weather Saturday from Tropical Storm Nestor.

The festival had vendor booths lining down the sidewalk at Central Avenue and Veteran’s Park with plenty of activities that you could purchase tickets to partake in.

A dunk booth, stage entertainment, a cake walk, a petting zoo, a bb gun shooting range, Jasper Fire Department fire truck showing, and Trauma One Helicopter expo out of Lake City.

Music and Sound were provided by Starlight Sound and Recording out of Lake City by Donald Johns. Music began at Heritage Park at 12:30 p.m. and continued until almost 7 p.m.

Performers included Kathy Stafford, The Gateway City Jazz Combo, Godiva, Average Joe, Pure Joy, Maurice Geiger, and Tommy, Jo and the Oldies.

Music ranging from Shania Twain, to 50’s style oldies were performed.

The Southern Rhythm Cloggers performed for the audience that was in Heritage Park at around 3 p.m.

Children were attempting to hit the target to dunk the victim of the dunk tank into the chilly water throughout the festival on Sunday.

People lined up to take a peek at the Trauma One helicopter that was set up in the rear of Heritage Park. Fire Chief Josh Waters was invited to take a short test flight to the Civic Center, which when he returned to Heritage Park, he stated how different it looks from the sky and stated, “There’s a lot of trees around here!”

The Trauma One team laughed and agreed with that assessment.

The festival came to its end and at the end of the day it was a success for Jasper’s October Fest that was hosted by the ARC of North Florida.